professional DevelopmeNt

Professional Development opportunities provide emerging digital artists with the tools, knowledge, and networks needed to advance their practice. Through workshops, mentorship, and hands-on training, participants build technical skills while gaining insight into industry standards, business practices, and creative collaboration. These experiences support artists in refining their voice and preparing for sustainable careers in digital art-making. Learn about our current programming below:

Artist Talks

The Artist Talks series invites accomplished artists to share the stories, ideas, and experiences that shape their work. Through presentations, dialogue, and audience discussion, participants gain insight into the creative process, artistic practice, and the personal and social influences that inform contemporary art-making. LEARN MORE

Convergence

The Convergence Professional Development Program for Filmmakers supports emerging and developing artists in building the creative, technical, and strategic skills needed to advance their work in film. Participants engage in hands-on production, critical feedback, and mentorship from experienced filmmakers, while developing original projects from concept through completion. The program emphasizes storytelling rooted in lived experience, offering space for collaboration, reflection, and the refinement of each artist’s unique voice within a supportive creative community. LEARN MORE

Fiscal Sponsorship

In Progress provides administrative and financial infrastructure for artists receiving grant awards that do not have the business infrastructure to fiscally mange large cash awards. Through this program, artists receive support with grant management, financial oversight, and organizational guidance while maintaining artistic independence. This structure allows projects to grow sustainably while staying rooted in community and purpose. READ MORE.

Mycelial Organizing

Mycelial Organizing: Care, Power, & Collective Futures is a collective learning and strategy space that builds care & resistance frameworks for community organizers navigating sustained stress, urgency, and fragmentation.    LEARN MORE

Pro Registration

The PRO Registration workshop series introduces musicians to the fundamentals of Public Rights Organizations (PROs), including how to register works, maximize royalties, and properly split rights between artists and publishers. Led by leading music professionals Cassie Opia and Jack Ger Vang, participants gain both foundational knowledge and hands-on experience to better manage their rights and income streams. LEARN MORE